Skookum Jim
Books
- A Ton of Goods Ledgers, Law, and the Klondike Gold Rush · Liszt Think
In July 1897, the steamers Excelsior and Portland docked with a ton of gold, igniting a stampede that would test the limits of human endurance and bureaucratic order.
- The Land of the Midnight Sun (pre-1896)…orge Carmack was living near the mouth of the Klondike River. He had come north in 1885 and had married a Tagish woman, Kate, the sister of Skookum Jim. In the summer of 1896 he would fish for salmon at the mouth of the Klondike, and, that not proving profitable, move up the river toward th…
- The Prospector’s Map…been panning creeks across the Yukon territory for six years without finding anything that would make a man rich. Behind him, on the bank, Skookum Jim (Keish) and Tagish Charlie (Dawson Charlie) rested by their packs, watching the water and the tree line in turns. The three of them had com…
- The Winter of the Secret…claims had to be filed before the river closed. That was the first pressure, the first institutional consequence of what George Carmack and Skookum Jim had pulled from the gravel of Bonanza Creek. The gold was in the pan. The gold was in the ground. But until a man stood before a mining rec…